[6] These were the three grand divisions of the Old Testament, according to the Jewish arrangement, and comprised the entire volume.[12] Cruden says that sacrifice was offered by Adam and his sons.[20] May we not learn from this the duty of expressing our thankfulness to the Giver of every good and perfect gift before partaking of it? so also, at Feast of Pentecost.[21] In Lev. xxiii. 18, it is stated one bullock and two rams, but in Numbers, just before entering the Promised Land, some alterations were made.[42] Mark here the dignity and quality of the teacher—“the brightness of the Father’s glory and express image of His person,”—come to teach men the things which He had seen and heard with His Father in heaven—John iii. 32,—and so completely representing the Father that He could say, “If ye have seen Me ye have seen the Father also” (John xiv. 15). See also Col. i. 15.[46] See terms used in the account of the daily and other sacrifices (Lev. i. 9; iv. 31, &c.), p. 16.[48a] The blood of goats and calves (Heb. ix. 12–14).[48b] The blood of Christ (Heb. ix. 14).[66] See in “Horne’s Introduction to the Critical Study of the Scriptures” a full account of the prophecies of the Old Testament, with their fulfilment in the words of the New Testament, from which several of the above are extracted. Vol. i., Appendix No. 6.